Monday, December 1, 2008

My Cup Runneth Over....

Today I am celebrating my 2 year Blogiversary!! And all I can think of is how many blessings this blog has brought me. Particularly, you. My friends. This past year I had the chance to meet so many of you, to get to know some of you better, and some who will always have a very special place in my heart. Thank you.

To celebrate, let's have a contest!! I'll pick one winner to give lots of yarny goodness to! All you need to do is leave a comment. Any comment. You can tell me about one of your favorite blogging memories, about a favorite blog, or why you knit. You can tell me what you'd like to see more of on my blog. Or things you like about the blogs you read. Or you can tell me why you love socks that rock (hehehehehe....doesn't everyone?!). Tell me what you are knitting or what you so want to knit once the holiday knitting is complete.

I'm off to New Orleans on Wednesday for work. This will be a quick and busy trip, so I'll pick the winner Sunday when I come back. Feel free to leave a comment until Sunday, Dec. 7, at noon PST.

Thank you all for reading and sharing and being part of the fabulous knitting community that I so cherish!

Happy Blogiversary!!!

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

p.s. Those of you who remember Rowan's, aka Irishdaisy's, pink and white scarf from last year's Blogiversary. Yeah. Not done. Maybe I'll just finish it for her.

98 comments:

What I like best about blogs is when people post stories of their knitting--especially the parts that don't work out perfectly. It makes me feel better about not being perfect right off the bat either! :)

Happy Blogiversary!!! :) I knit because I can't NOT knit anymore, and I love knitting blogs because the people who write knitting blogs are just like me. :) I love reading your blog - your photos are great, and I love the almost never-ending parade of STR colors that show up here. :) hehe Here's to another 2 years! :)

I agree with Manda. I knit because I can't NOT knit anymore either! It's improved my patience while waiting for things like doctor's appointments, etc. I love to see what projects inspire other people, and of course, I love to see their yarn stash! :)Happy Blogiversary!

I like that blogs give me a glimpse into other people's lives. I especially like knowing that there are others, many thousands of others, who are crazy for yarn and knitting like I am. Blogs make me feel normal (whether that is true or not). They make me laugh when I'm having a hellacious day, and make me feel like I'm not the only one who messed up that buttonhole, or had to frog a back, or can't seem to stop buying sock yarn. To quote a magnet I purchased from cafe press: I knit so I don't kill people. It is my yoga, my meditation.

Congratulations on your blogiversary!!! I am trying to keep going w/ one after several false starts!

Hey, I picked a good day to catch up on my blogs! Happy Blogiversary. Get yourself a nice present (Although it looks like you did on Friday). As for me, I'm knitting socks for Christmas, and have at least 2 sweaters I want to knit but can't until January!

Happy Blogiversary!! I love reading blogs as I've gotten to see and learn so much about knitting, life in other states and countries, and just meeting other people. Some I've met in person and some...sigh like you I hope to meet in real life one day!!

Happy Blogiversary! I always enjoy reading your blog. I love how upbeat you are, love the cute pictures of "little man", the doggies and all the lovely STR pics too. The fact that snowboarder always wants hats and even models some for you amuses me to no end. I just love how you keep it colorful and fun. As for anything else, I'm dying to knit February Lady. I love how yours turned out. Perhaps I'll make a goal to finish by February. =)

I love reading blogs (addicted, perhaps?) esp when they are well-written. That is why I love reading YOURS! I'm an English teacher. I read A LOT of bad writing! LOL! I enjoy living vicariously through others knitting joys and failures, travels, classes... I really love your hilarious comments about your love of STR. Having never used it, I want to run out and buy it NOW! Keep up the blogging and I'll keep reading!

I love knitting blogs because I have discovered so many amazing and fun things. I have found yarns that I never would have known about (STR), patterns that I never would have knit except for that someone else had the courage to use a different yarn and it made it fabulous. I've done a couple KAL's, I joined a sock club, and I found ravelry. Plus I love reading about projects, all the good, bad and ugly of them. Happy Blogiversary!

Congrats! Ah, nothing like the prospect of free stuff to bring out the lurkers. Well, my stealthy nature is what it is, but does not mean I don't really enjoy your blog. Happy knitting, happy blogging, happy anniversary.

I love your blog because I like the way you write - it feels real, and conversational. Plus, you post pictures of fabulous knitted stuff and gorgeous STR. :D If you ever make it out to DC... you'd better drop me a line!

I'm a new reader of your blog and enjoy your exuberance and great pics.

I am amazed and grateful that at the ripe age of 40+ knitting is teaching me new things, whether it's a stitch, a pattern, or that I have a significant reserve of patience and love for the process of learning, and for myself within that process.

Happy Happy!!imagine that a computer could allow us to make and have friends. people we may never or seldom see but that we conisder real friends. such a cool thing (unless my kids get into it!)i am thankful for the chance to meet you and call you a friend! now i always have somewhere to runaway to! lol. thanks irishgirlie!!!!!!!!

Hmm.. there are so many things I can say, but I'll make it short (as possible 8-)

--> I love the fact that I encounter wonderful people, such as yourself, who have common interests, and who I might not of met prior had I not started knitting. I found you through knowing Tapmouse, who I met at Scout's dye class at K11.

--> I love knitting, it is so therapeutic, and so rewarding, not to mention it is so useful in every aspect

--> I learn each day which exercises my brain now I need to parlay that into exercising the rest of my body*-)

Hmm.. there are so many things I can say, but I'll make it short (as possible 8-)

--> I love the fact that I encounter wonderful people, such as yourself, who have common interests, and who I might not of met prior had I not started knitting. I found you through knowing Tapmouse, who I met at Scout's dye class at K11.

--> I love knitting, it is so therapeutic, and so rewarding, not to mention it is so useful in every aspect

--> I learn each day which exercises my brain now I need to parlay that into exercising the rest of my body*-)

Happy Blogiversary! I like to read your blog to see what you make with STR other than socks! Your February Lady sweater sucked me in. :-) Keep up the lovely knitting, lovely pictures, and inspiration for us all.

Your blog has been one of my favorites since I found it just a few months ago. I love that you intoduced me to Madelintosh yarn and Woolgirl- both are new favs!I love to see your sock yarn and your finished knits, and I have a thing for BMFA so it is really fun to see what you have stashed- love your blog's title picture!You are just a really fun site for me and and wish I already had met you in person, but maybe someday! I'm blogless in Seattle, but thinking about starting one!

Well I have to join the crowd. I enjoy your blog and others because they connect me with other people who are sort of like me, addicted to knitting. I have to admit that I am not a big sock knitter. I have extremely difficult feet that are very sensitive. But I do enjoy yours vicariously. Happy blogiversary!

I want to tell you why your blog is on my favorites list. I really enjoy seeing your yarn purchases and the many projects that you seem to finish so fast. I love that you include pictures of yourself because you look like a very happy person who loves and values your friends. I also enjoy the positive aspect of your blog.

I like blogging because it makes me knit more productively so I have something to blog! Silly but true.

I haven't knit with STR. Yet. But when I finish Hey Teach, I'm planning to get some medium-weight and make some non-skinny yarn socks! I don't like to knit with teeny needles, but I find that I love to wear my hand-knit socks, so I need more...

You know, I was just thinking yesterday that I didn't have much holiday knitting to do this year, which is really strange. I am usually working my little fingers to the bone. This year, I am only giving a few knitting things, and all but one small project are finished. I'm not sure what to do with all this free knitting time. Make something for myself?

Congrats on 2 years! Thank you for keeping your blog - I love to see all the yarny goodness you 'collect' and your fab knitting. This year I got to meet some online friends when I flew from NZ to the US for the Loopy Ewe Spring Fling - fantastic fun, and the knitter's I met were even more awesome in person (how I miss them!!). You gotta love the innernets!

Happy Blogiversary! I knit because knitting is something that makes me stand out. At school, I would be the girl in the background but they look over and say "Hey! What are you knitting?" When I knit, I feel different. I feel that I am my own person, not quite like anyone else. Knitting gives me my identity and I don't know what I would do without it! Again, congrats on making it to two years!

i never really looked twice at STR until i started reading your blog. i still have yet to try any, but i really hope to one day! i'm knitting my first pair of socks, so maybe once i get these finished i will get some STR and make something pretty. :]

Happy Blogiversary Carrie :0) And woot woot, I made the photo cut - twice!!! What a FABULOUS time I had at stitches with you. Just the best, best, best. You and Irishdaisy are AWESOME hosts. I so like your sister's sense of humour, even though she STILL hasn't finished that scarf. Make her do it - it'll only take an hour!!!

Thanks for being a super-blogger this year and sharing all your yarny goodness with us. This trip I've either been knitting acrylic hats for my boys (brrr, it was cold up there), or STR hats for a craft show I'm doing tomorrow. LOVE the STR squishyness. Here's hoping I sell something so I can buy more yarn for my blanky.... :0)

Knitting used to feel like a very solitary (but enjoyable) thing until I discovered blogs. Now, whenever I pick up my yarn and needles, I feel a connection to so many people, most of whom I've never met!

I love reading your stories, seeing your WIPs, envying your stash, all the things that make knitting feel like a community to me.

happy blog birthday! I looked back over the posts I've saved from your blog in my reader and realized all the posts have something in common: photos of a project in STR - you really do love it (and I understand completely)!

I enjoy reading the other knit blogs...makes me feel more normal. I have no knitting friends locally, so I only have the other bloggers to visit online. I especially enjoy Stephanie Pearl McPhee's humor (humour if CA? LOL) and look forward to her mishaps and adventures.

I love reading blogs, not just for the knitting, which is great, but to hear stories of people's lives, their ideas, hopes, etc. It's a chance to get to know people and find out about different things.

I enjoy your blog because you seem to enjoy life and knitting. Your patterns are fun and look great and,it's all your fault (along with Neuroknitter) that I have bought and continue to buy STR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I love to own them, knit with them, covet them, but may not live long enough to use them up!!!!Oh Well!!!!Many thanks for caring to blog!

Happy Blogiversary! I love reading your blog because it always puts a smile on my face. I also want to thank you for blogging about Purlescence. I live in southern cal and made my family drive me an hour to Sunnyvale (from San Ramon)when I was last up north to visit and it made me so happy. I will definitely be going back. Thanks!

I so enjoy reading craft blogs, but especially ones about knitting. There is something solid about knitters and it seems to extend world wide. Reading in one moment someone's blog in the UK, then the Arctic circle, Finnland, the USA, they are for the most part heart warming. I learn from these incredible knitter who share wonder words of advice, photos of incredible knits that motivate you to keep on improving your craft. I wouldn't change a thing about your blog. Variety is the spice of life and each blog is special in its own way.

I love knitting, cooking a blogging. Reading blogs inspires me to be more productive, try new and different things (both in the knitting and cooking arenas) and it helps to give me perspective about my projects and the projects that I want to try!

Happy Blogiversary! Thanks for stopping by mine and commenting on my (your) hat. It was dead easy to do, and the cables were really intuitive. Love it! Now I just have to do a little braided embellishment. I will try to post a pic of Nephew in the hat after the holidays.

I was an LJer for years before I caved in and started using the Blogger account I set up over 2 years ago. I am not after an audience but I want a place where I can talk about my still newly-found passion for knitting. So Blogger for knitting, LJ for fangirling. Nice fit eh? I have always been fascinated by knitting but never picked it up until a year ago, and as they say, the rest is history. And so is free closet space, extra cash and free time at home. My stash has overtaken my children's bedroom, but in a good way. I yearn to be a very good knitter in that I finish projects and do them without trying to cover up the mistakes I made hoping my recipient does not notice. I also wish there is an LYS where I am so I can talk shop with fellow knitters. Ravelry and the blogging world is heaven-sent. I just started watching your blog today and looking forward to more enjoyable posts. Your FLS is what brought me here, I'm knitting my first one with Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran and hope to be good at it until my STRs arrive. Oh and your FLS buttons are made of awesome!

I love it when they go on adventures and colorful projects that are clectic.Iam knitting a wine tote both hubby and I are.I want to work on my lizard ridge when done with Christmas and charity knitting.I have one precious skein of STR.Happy Blogaversary:)Huggers Darcy

I love to knit because it helps me focus and think. I love to knit because I can't stop myself. There's just something soothing about having yarn slip through your fingers, especially on a bad day. Thank you for blogging! Your entries are always nice to read. Being a fan of STR as well, I love seeing what you do with it. =)

I really enjoy reading your blog - it's fun & inspirationaI! I also looove STR, but I didn't know about Woolgirl before reading your blog, so you've introduced me to another fabulous haven of yarn-y goodness. My stash and I thank you, but my bank account would rather not talk about it!

I love to knit, and to think about what I'd like to knit someday soon. The potential and possibility is exciting! This explains a lot about my stash. :)

Here's to many more years of knitting & blogging! Thank you for sharing your thoughts, projects, and gorgeous yarn!

Wowsers. I don't think I've ever seen so many comments to one blog!Knitting is an art. Period. Whether its for a hat or a pair of baby booties or the SUV cover like that woman from Canadia knitted and subsequently got stopped at the border because she had sketches of SUVs... every piece we do is an art in and of itself!

Oh, let's pick a few - I love your blog for many reasons, but what strikes me most is how much happiness and joy you have! You have such a fun, generous, positive spirit and it just shines through in every post. :)

I love to knit because it satisfies both my crafty and anal sides.;) It's soothing, inspiring, exciting, and Zen all rolled up into one. Plus, you get a finished product that you can wear or use when you're done!

And I love STR because oh, the squoosh. The wanna-start-knitting-with-it-while-you're-winding-it squoosh!

Happy Blogiversary!!! It's been so nice getting to know knitting friends through blogging. I love seeing what others are working on and what inspires them. I get inspired by so many others (including your blog *smile*). Knit and blog on!